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WHITEHALL
Performance body planned, but no league table return
By Dan Peters | 15 February 2023
Whitehall officials have told the sector they do not intend to create league tables as they push ...
WELFARE
Council benefits teams struggling, auditors warn
By Mark Conrad | 14 February 2023
People are waiting longer for housing benefit claims while Scotland’s councils face soaring workl...
FINANCE
Brighton grapples with 'high risk' loan
By Martin Ford | 10 February 2023
Brighton & Hove City Council will have to put aside millions of pounds every year to cover a loan...
BUSINESS
Auditor calls for national changes after public interest report
By Dan Peters | 01 February 2023
External auditor Grant Thornton has called for national changes after cataloguing a ‘toxic’ cultu...
FINANCE
Call for fiscal freedom
By Martin Ford | 01 February 2023
Scotland’s councils face their ‘most difficult’ year of budget setting, politicians in Holyrood h...
FINANCE
Council investigates exit payments
By Martin Ford | 31 January 2023
Exit payments made to former Northumberland Council staff may have been unlawful, members have be...
FINANCE
Authorities react to Best Value notices
By Martin Ford | 26 January 2023
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority and Middlesbrough Council have received Best V...
FINANCE
FRC to develop local audit workforce strategy
By Dan Peters | 25 January 2023
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) is to develop a local audit workforce strategy this year as...
SOLACE
Filling in the failure gap
By Heather Jameson | 25 January 2023
Max Caller has been investigating council failures since the 1990s. Heather Jameson talks to him ...
FINANCE
Councils should help residents do more for themselves, auditor urges
By Mark Conrad | 23 January 2023
Local authorities in Wales should develop community resilience initiatives to help residents do m...
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Service Manager - Multi Agency Child Protection Team
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Lead the future of multi-agency child protection in Cheshire East. Apply for this job
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£54,994 - £62,777 per annum
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